Presenters:
John Streamas, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University
”Racial Geographies in Children's Literature of Japanese American Internment”
Nancy Cook, University of Rhode Island
”The Romance of Ranching, or Selling Place-Based Fantasies in/of the American West”
Jose Aranda, Rice University
”The Social Construction of 'Place' in Mexican American Culture”
Judy Gobert, Salish Kootenai College

2. April Gentry, Savannah State University
“Sugar-Coating California Capitalism?: The 'Twain' Self of Twain's Hawaii Letters and Notebooks”

3. Susan Kalter, Illinois State University
“Chasing Horses in Comancheria: How Hale Naturalizes U.S. Conquest in Philip Nolan's Friends”

4. Matthew Heimburger, University of Utah
“Noble Savages at Home and Abroad: Twentieth-Century Literary Depictions of Nineteenth-Century Native Americans Lost on the Continent at the Turn of the Century”

Session 6B Mary Clearman Blew: Toward a New Feminist Regionalism

Chair: Alanna Kathleen Brown, Montana State University

1. Amber Leonard, Boise State University
“The Way into the West: Social Landscape in Mary Clearman Blew's All But the Waltz”

2. Cassie Hemstrom, Boise State University
“Where Have all the Cowboys Gone?: Mary Clearman Blew's New Narrative of the West”

3. Mandy Page, Boise State University
“Mary Clearman Blew's All But the Waltz as a Feminist Redefinition of Experience”

Session 6C From Naturalism to Bioregionalism: Great Plains Literary Imaginations

2. Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“Insects in Southwestern Literature: The Little Things that Run the World”

3. Reuben Ellis, Prescott College
“Bad Memory: The Nightmare of Living with the Land in Literary Representations of Prehistoric Southwestern Cultures”

Session 6F Lewis and Clark: Bicentennial Responses

Chair: Brady Harrison, University of Montana, Missoula

1. Frank Bergon, Vassar College
“The Journals of Lewis and Clark: An American Epic”

2. Kathleen Danker, South Dakota State University
“Some 21st-Century Responses to the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Native American Essayists in the Upper Midwest
Session 6G Wild and Wilder: Reading Jack London

Chair: Neil Campbell, University of Derby

1. Pierre Lagayette, University of Paris
“Pilgrimage to Paradise: Jack London's Valley of the Moon”

2. Kenneth K. Brandt, Savannah College of Art and Design
“Considering the Variety of Jack London's Narrative Modes in Teaching The Call of the Wild”

Lois Rudnick, Director of American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Peter Briggs, former Chief Curator of the University of Arizona Museum of Art
Mimi Robert, Director of the Museum of New Mexico Traveling Exhibitions Service

Session 7C Cultures of Nature in the North American West

Chair: Krista Comer, Rice University

1. Capper Nichols, University of Minnesota
“Going Ultralight: The Eight and a Half Pound Quest for Nature”

2. Nathaniel Lewis, St. Michael's College
“An Ecophilosophy of Form: Kenneth Burke and Western American Nature Writing”

3. Tim LeCain, Montana State University
”'See America the Bountiful': Consuming Cultures and Mining Landscapes in the American West”

Session 7D Dancing With Wolves: Reality and Imagination

Chair: Walter Isle, Rice University

1. Alan Weltzien, University of Montana÷Western
“Of Wolves and Rick Bass and Sheep Ranchers and Men”

2. Barney Nelson, Sul Ross State University
“Teaching with Predators in Literature”

1. Bill Toth, Western New Mexico University
“The Death of a Shoe Salesman or Bronco Billy Rides Again and Again: The Search for Authenticity and Identity in the Multi-Mediated Iconography of the New West”

Session 9D Women's Narratives of the West: Voicing the Boundaries of Gender, Race, and Genre

Chair: Judy Nolte Temple, University of Arizona

1. Julie Wilson, University of Arizona
“Angel of the Hearth?: Susan Magoffin Securing Feminine Identity on the Frontier”

2. Amy Fatzinger, University of Arizona
“Fantasies of the Frontier: Rewriting the Indian in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie”

3. Jane Haigh, University of Arizona
“Between Memoir and History: Examining the Intersections Between Self-Writing, Biography, Memoir, History, and Life-Writing”

4. Randi Tanglen, University of Arizona
“Negotiating or Rationalizing? Theorizing or Replicating?: Exploring the Metacritical Dilemma of Colonial Legacies Through and Against Mary Austin's Cactus Thorn”

Session 9E Guys Gone Wild: Male Embodiment in Western Literature

Chair: Bonney MacDonald, Union College

1. David Cremean, Black Hills State University
“Doug Peacock: The Grizzly in Winter”

Participants:
Walter Fleming, Montana State University
Henrietta Mann, Montana State University
Joe McGeshick, Montana State University
Germaine White, Salish Kootenai College
Jeanne Eder, University of Alaska, Anchorage